Handheld-based electronic meeting support

  • Authors:
  • Gustavo Zurita;Nelson Baloian

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Sistemas de Información y Auditoría, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile;Departamento de Ciencia de la Computación, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

  • Venue:
  • CRIWG'05 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Groupware: design, Implementation, and Use
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Many studies have reported on the problems that arise when trying to carry out successful meetings. Various authors have developed computerized tools for supporting the different stages of a meeting, but most of these have been conceived for large PCs or Notebooks, which tend to distract the participants from face-to-face interaction. Also, many meetings are organized in a spontaneous manner, sometimes with no access to PCs. In this paper, we propose a meeting support tool for handhelds that overcomes many of the problems inherent in the use of devices with large screens. However, the small size of handheld displays leads to other problems, especially in human-handheld and human-human interactions. The system proposed here is designed using gesture and concept-map principles that enable these problems to be resolved.